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It is easier to live by fixed rules, but by tact and self...

It is easier to live by fixed rules, but by tact and self trial.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about judgment, tact, rules, self-control

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Quote by Joe Baca about hardworking, character, need, real estate, good, good luck, people

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about television, night, people

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.

Quote by William Falconer about enemies, fire, fire brigade, man, time

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, ...

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed.

Quote by William Falconer about old

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and...

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about obstacles, ignorance

I had to really be clear about what having a cleft palette does and if you had it badly fixed, you would have your hard palette brought together but would have no teeth.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about contentment

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about perseverance, determination, moral, despair, impossible, things, contentment

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about feelings

General Fault Errors are the “Check Engine” light of...

General Fault Errors are the “Check Engine” light of computers. If it can be fixed, chances are it's not by you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, chance, error, light, contentment

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Quote by Thomas Paine about science, man

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about life, problems, people

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Quote by Erich Fromm about beauty, man, nature, human imperfections

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Quote by William Faulkner about art, life, artists

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about woman, happiness, heart

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, ...

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Quote by Susan Oliver about photography, life

With magic feeling fixed by egocentric startings, through...

With magic feeling fixed by egocentric startings, through free falls, usual, intense – I open myself to whole Non-being, arched infinite of light into concentric circles.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity

The thought and reason reality of - «to be» it discloses...

The thought and reason reality of - «to be» it discloses as being perfectly fixed Being inherent.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about love

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